TERRITORIES: Birds & Blanks

Justicia, a prize game cock of Puerto Rico, lost a handsome tail
feather last week. Senator Rafael Martinez Nadal, the bird's proud
owner, plucked it out, fashioned it into a quill, presented it to
Governor Robert Hayes Gore as the instrument wherewith he might sign
a bill legalizing cockfighting throughout the island. The first
insular legislature in 1900 drove this popular Latin sport
underground. There, as in the U.S., it continued to thrive. Governor Gore,
who has enjoyed many a main as a boy in Louisville, Kentucky, brought
it back to light...